He probably cares about those things less than he cares about minimizing the number of decades he spends in a modern dungeon known as a United States Penitentiary. And he thinks that painting himself as having had good motives at heart will curry favor with the sentencing judge he is likely to face.
(By the way, I think his strategy will backfire—it might have been a reasonable mitigation strategy if he had chosen to come clean almost immediately after the collapse. But—assuming he is convicted—when combined with his denials of misconduct, it will come across as fake piety that will not play well in front of most judges.)
He probably cares about those things less than he cares about minimizing the number of decades he spends in a modern dungeon known as a United States Penitentiary. And he thinks that painting himself as having had good motives at heart will curry favor with the sentencing judge he is likely to face.
(By the way, I think his strategy will backfire—it might have been a reasonable mitigation strategy if he had chosen to come clean almost immediately after the collapse. But—assuming he is convicted—when combined with his denials of misconduct, it will come across as fake piety that will not play well in front of most judges.)